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The Charles & Christine Shivery Foundation at a glance

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The Charles & Christine Shivery Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$307kPhilanthropy$306kHealth$260kReligion$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$202kHuman Services$113kScience & Tech$77kRecreation & Sports$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $446k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PECOMETH CAMP & RETREAT MINISTRIES$160,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION$80,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC CHAPTER$75,000
FLA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILD DEVELOP$51,000
SPARCC$26,000
ST JOHNS FOOD SHARE$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NEW BRITIAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
SELBY GARDENS$5,000
DEEP ROOTS$5,000
CT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
SHORES RIVERS$1,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK$1,000
SARASOTA ORCHESTRA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $80k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%DEEP ROOTS: $15k → 10%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%DEEP ROOTS: $15k → 10%FIDELITY GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%DEEP ROOTS: $5k → 10%THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDH: $1k → 9%FIDELITY GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
UT
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$521k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$1.5M
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PU
    PECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +37%
  • HP
    HACKS POINT FIRE CO INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $201k · revenue +76% · 47% of their budget
  • FG
    FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • MG
    MS GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $307k
  • TH
    THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +101%
  • SP
    SAFE PLACE & RAPE CRISIS SARSOTA
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
4
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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5
Food Bank of Delaware Inc

The mission of the organization is to inspire hope in our communities by providing food to nourish delawareans, while collaborating on long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
6
Interfaith Social Services Inc

To provide south shore residents with the resources necessary to support a healthy and fulfilling life. our team delivers programs focused on alleviating hunger, providing mental health counseling, preventing homelessness, and bringing joy…

Human Services
7
Farm Share Inc

A.farm share, inc. (the "organization") is a non-profit organization and was incorporated under the laws of the state of florida on july 8, 1992 as a 501c3 corporation that is tax-exempt under the provision of the internal revenue code.…

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc

The food bank's mission is to provide nutritious food to non-profit organizations that feed the hungry in darien, greenwich, new canaan, norwalk, stamford and wilton ct., while seeking to raise awareness of, and promote action to combat,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
10
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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11
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
12
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $540,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMS GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST: $306,832 · OtherMS GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUSTSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDA: $150,000 · OtherSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDASPECIAL OLYMPICS DC CHAPTER: $75,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS DC CHAPTERCT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · OtherCT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTERFLA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILD DEVELOP: $51,000 · Other+11 more: $42,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $300,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA…+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyPECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC: $260,000 · ReligionPECOMETH UNI…HACKS POINT FIRE CO INC: $201,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHACKS POI…FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $112,000 · Human ServicesDEEP ROOTS INC: $35,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $77,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $26,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $4,000 · Health
Other$1,239,832Philanthropy$306,000Religion$260,000Public Safety & Disaster$201,000Human Services$148,000Arts & Culture$109,000Health$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECOMETH UNITED METHODIST CAMP AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC: $260,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHACKS POINT FIRE CO INC: $201,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $112,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $77,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEEP ROOTS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Johns Food Share: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charles & Christine Shivery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles & Christine Shivery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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